There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

Watching a child first learn to crawl on a carpet somehow has more significance to you as you get a little older. Perhaps it is that you have suffered more.

The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.

Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

Saw fans are manic, when it comes to details, so they're going to say, "Wait a minute! Why is that like that? It wasn't like that before." And, they're right.

'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.'

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.

There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.

Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to.

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

The difference between MUST & SHOULD is the life you want and the life you have.